"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[topdog24]

Can't wait to hear the results! I was looking to get some stock from rainbow hatchery moor a next than hatchery and has some good lines on her marans, even had a rooster from Bev Davis.
Speaking of Bev Davis she is going to be a the poultry show at LSU Nov. 22nd, anyone planning on going? I think we will make it should be a fun trip, my in laws will be in town so we will make a whole day of going to Baton Rouge.

I will be offshore for that

 

[rlcrow]

@topdog24

Who do you work for? My husband works for chevron in Covington. He is a HES specialist.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Wow this is an active group! I just wanted to say hi, my name is Jules, and I am from Minnesota. I was in Florida for 14 years prior to going back to Minnesota for three years. After last winter up there, I could not stand the thought of another cold day in the north so I moved to Louisiana in July of this year. I live in Lacombe. I brought with me a few pairs of seramas and my favorite pair of araucanas, my jersey wooly bunnies and my horse. My daughter and I are active in ARBA/ABA/APA/SCNA and she's also a 4-H exhibitor

Your right up the road from me. I'm in Slidell.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hmmmm...I don't have an incubator. How much is the investment in one and do you feel it is worth it? I planned on raising my ducks and using either my silkie or broody ducks to raise them. I would like to hatch chicks, but I'm still waiting on LSU for my results on the necropsy. And I would like to raise some colored egg producers. I have what I was told marans,but they haven't started laying yet. And I get one pretty blue Green egg but I'm not spared to have any EE. So I'm not sure. The place I got them from was pretty disorganized, I done think she knew what she actually gave me and I didn't know enough at the time.

Does buying eggs save any money? What are the pros and cons? If I have to cull my flock due to some nasty disease and start over I would rather start with good quality birds. My silkie chicks have not been exposed to the others, so I think they are safe and I could keep them.

If you can't find it local hatching eggs are the way to go IMO. When I was looking for my legbars I was shipped chicks twice arrived mostly alive but died within a day. I didn't have an incubator at that time so I bought from someone I could drive to to get them.
With eggs read reviews your hatch rate can depend on shipping and the age of eggs shipped. As for chicks some breeds ship better than others. As for a incubator they come in all price ranges. You can even make one. I found it very rewarding to hatch my own chicks.

If you buy juvinals or adult birds the cost is more. If you just want a back yard flock by from the feed store. If you want quantity buy from or breed your own. It depends on your goals are. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Louisiana Jules, i bet you are second guessing whether our weather is better than the North today!!!!!!! At least you are not out  in the gulf today, we have 45 to 55 mph winds out here and the temp. is about 46, feels like 26. Today is a good day to stay inside, i am crossing my fingers and everything else that none of my equipment fails in this weather, it would be brutal to have to go repair something, all my engines and pumps are in the open wind, very harsh conditions to work in today.

Stay safe. Pam

 

[topdog24]

@topdog24

Who do you work for? My husband works for chevron in Covington. He is a HES specialist.

I work for Shamrock Energy Solutions out of Houma, i am on contract to Fieldwood Energy, previously Apache and prior Mariner Energy, i have maintained my position through both buyouts. I am a Natural gas compressor mechanic, aka production mechanic, i sure hope everything stays together until warmer weather, the wind has been blowing like demons screaming out here since midnight, the temps not too bad but the wind cuts you to pieces. I am hoping to get back on a land job soon, i have my aplication in with german wood pellet plant in Urania LA, thats about 20 miles from home, i sure want to get off this gulf.

 

[topdog24]

I work for Shamrock Energy Solutions out of Houma, i am on contract to Fieldwood Energy, previously Apache and prior Mariner Energy, i have maintained my position through both buyouts. I am a Natural gas compressor mechanic, aka production mechanic, i sure hope everything stays together until warmer weather, the wind has been blowing like demons screaming out here since midnight, the temps not too bad but the wind cuts you to pieces. I am hoping to get back on a land job soon, i have my aplication in with german wood pellet plant in Urania LA, thats about 20 miles from home, i sure want to get off this gulf, i have some friends that went to work offshore for Chevron, in fact i was looking at them, but i would still be offshore or have to relocate or rent in the area of the positions that were available at the time, it would be nice to get in the vehicle and go to the store if i needed something, thats not an option out here.
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[Ron Skekel]

Pam, Jennifer called today and said the hatchery is culling at 7pm today.  She's tied up as an extra on a film crew in Minden.  So I can't find transportation and it's in Ringgold, about 1 hr away.  They will do it again in 3 mo.  
Any one want her contact #?  They are 18 mon old and are Cobb 500    A few weeks under light and they would begin laying again.   

Thanks Linda I have her number. Thank you for thinking of me. I'm at full capacity with my legbars and Biefeleders. Plus I put a deposit on the hatching eggs the barred rocks from Nebraska. The rest of my flock is hatchery egg layers. I forgot I also have 2 legbar x marens hopefully will be olive eggers. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Can't wait to hear the results! I was looking to get some stock from rainbow hatchery moor a next than hatchery and has some good lines on her marans, even had a rooster from Bev Davis.
Speaking of Bev Davis she is going to be a the poultry show at LSU Nov. 22nd, anyone planning on going? I think we will make it should be a fun trip, my in laws will be in town so we will make a whole day of going to Baton Rouge.

Primrose usually volunteers there. Ron went last year. I don't know if we will go or not. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

@topdog24

Who do you work for? My husband works for chevron in Covington. He is a HES specialist.

Aren't you in bush? If you want hatching eggs and don't want a incubator I can hatch them for you. Pam